Brooklyn Bridge

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Brooklyn Bridge

• What do you see in this slide?
• What are some of the important materials needed
  to construct a bridge this size
• How is construction of this symbolic of Americas
  transformation into an industrial nation.

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Steel Workers

• What are these men doing?
• How does this steel plant represent an industrial
  improvement?
• What is made with steel?
• How did this process help fuel industrial growth?

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Flat Iron Building

• What do you notice about this building
• What technological advancements created such
  buildings?
• Why were these buildings necessary in an
  increasingly urbanized age.
• Featured in the motion pictures Spider-Man 1 and
  2 as the office of the newspaper Daily Bugle.

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Andrew Carnegie

• Notice his dress, does he look wealthy?
• How did Carnegie become so wealthy?
• Do wealthy businessmen benefit the United States?

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Pennsylvania oil field

• What industry is this?
• What would it be like to work in such an
  environment?
• Why do you think oil fields such as this one
  became increasingly important in an age of
  industrialization.

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John D. Rockefeller

• What type of man is this?
• How do you think he made his money?
• What are the benefits of and drawbacks to
  allowing a few businessmen to become fabulously
  wealthy by selling a common good such as oil?

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Railway station

• About when would you say this photo was taken?
• Do you think that at this time the railroads
  formed an extensive network?
• Why are railroads so important to
  industrialization?

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Political Cartoon

• What is the purpose of this slide?
• Do you think the railroads helped or hurt
  American Industry?
• What do you think the cartoonist opinion of
  Vanderbilt was?